Innovative linguistics in the master's degree: the author's view Floriy Batsevich (article-review of the publication: Fundamentals of linguistic narratology: textbook / Floriy Batsevich. Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2025. 292 p.)

Abstract

The article-review offers an analysis of the new textbook for university didactics for second-year master's students "Fundamentals of Linguonarratology" by Florii Batsevych – Professor of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. The authorial concept of a contemporary university textbook is examined as one that corresponds to systemic principles of consistency, thoroughness, and deeply substantiated presentation of material in master's-level disciplines, while simultaneously relying on innovative and modern approaches to the selection and interpretation of scholarly content. Particular attention is devoted to the methods, methodologies, and techniques of linguistic analysis of literary texts, as well as to the possibilities of incorporating evidence and findings from other paradigmatic domains, including psychology, literary studies, history, and cultural studies. Consequently, all key categories (chronotope of text history, personalities of its participants, specific narrative events, etc.) receive accurate and conceptually grounded explanations within an integrally constructed discourse of the humanities in general and of its linguistic component in particular. The reviewer finds especially persuasive the author's emphasis on the operational flexibility of the functional-communicative method in both interpretative and text-generative variants, which foreground issues of literary text production and interpretation.

The structure of the textbook is analyzed in terms of its compliance with genre conventions and, at the same time, its innovative character. It is established that the chapters form a coherent logical sequence: from general theoretical problems of narratology to the elaboration of topical issues and prospects for analyzing narratives across various styles and genres, as well as to the author's substantiation of modern approaches in narratology. The review concludes by emphasizing the necessity and future potential of master's-level textbooks in higher education that are correlated with the author's original scholarly pursuit of solutions to pressing issues in contemporary science.